Edmund Lockett and Sarah Bryant
Husband Edmund Lockett
Born: 3 Jun 1761 - (Chesterfield Co., Virginia) Christened: Died: 24 Jun 1834 Buried:
Father: Richard Lockett (Bef 1734-1795) Mother: Mary Logwood ( -Abt 1805)
Marriage: 8 Dec 1785 - Powhatan Co., Virginia 1
Wife Sarah Bryant
Born: 5 Nov 1762 Christened: Died: After 1840 Buried:
Father: James Bryant ( -1807) Mother:
Children
General Notes: Husband - Edmund Lockett
CENSUS:
<pre>1820 Chesterfield Co., Virginia
Capt E. Lockett 000101 -- 02012; 8 in agriculture; 3 in manufactures; 30 slaves
male female
<10
10-16 2
16-18
1 16-26
26-45 1
1 >45 2 </pre>
<pre>1830 Chesterfield Co., Virginia
Edmond Lockett 000110001 -- 0001; 38 slaves
male female
< 5
5-10
10-15
1 15-20 1
1 20-30
30-40
40-50
50-60
1 60-70 </pre>
CHESTERFIELD CO. TAX RECORDS:
Land tax records are available from 1791 onward. I have seem them only through 1810. The second through fourth columns are number of acres, total value, and tax.
<pre>
1791 167 acres £69 2/- £1 /10 Edmond Lockett
1792 239 acres £86 £1 5/10 Edmond Lockett
50 acres £10 16/8 3/3 of Lewis Sublett
50 acres £10 16/8 3/3 of Tho. Friend
1793 329 acres £103 7/6 £1 11/1 Edmond Lockett
20 acres £6 18/4 2/1 of Jno. Powell
1794 349 acres £110 5/10 £1 13/2 Edmond Lockett
1795 349 acres £110 5/10 £1 13/2 Edmond Lockett
1796 349 acres £110 5/10 £1 13/2 Edmond Lockett
1797 370.5 acres £117 11/1 £1 15/5 Edmond Lockett
18.5 acres £6 6/- 2/- of Ben Watkins
1798 374 acres $431 $1.64 Edmund Lockett
1799 illegible
1800 460.5 acres 647 3.10 Edmund Lockett
1801 460 acres 647 3.10 Edmond Lockett
1802 460.5 acres 647 3.10 Edmond Lockett
1803 460.5 acres 658 3.15 Edmond Lockett
1804 460.5 acres 658 3.15 Edmond Lockett
1805 460.5 acres 658 3.15 Edmond Lockett
1806 460.5 acres 658 3.15 Edmond Lockett
1807 460.5 acres 658 3.15 Edmond Lockett
1809 460.5 acres 658 3.15 Edmond Lockett
1810 460.5 acres 658 3.15 Edmond Lockett
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Personal property tax records are available from 1786 onward. I have seen them through 1810. The columns are as follows:
<pre>
1) white tithables (1786 white males over 21; 1791 & later white males over 16)
2) whites between 16 & 21 (1786 only)
3) black tithables (in 1790 and later blacks over 16)
4) blacks above 12 & under 16
5) total blacks (1786 only)
6) horses (horses, mares, colts, mules; 'horse' often means 'gelding')
7) tax
wh wh bl bl bl ho tax
1786 1 4 2 5 2
1788 4 1 1 4
1790 3 2 3 4
1791 5 4 3 3
1792 5 3 3 3
1793 4 3 3 4
1794 3 6 4
1795 1 6 4
1796 1 6 4
1797 1 6 3
1798
1799 1 6 5 $3.24
1800 1 6 5 3.24
1801 1 4 5 2.36
1802 1 3 4 2.80
1803 1 3 1 3 2.12
1804 1 3 1 3 2.12
1805 1 4 2 4 3.12
1806 1 4 2 5 3.24 Capt. Edmund Lockett
1807 1 4 3 7 3.92 Edward Lockett
1809 2 6 3 6 5.54 (1 chair)
1810 2 6 2 6 5.10 (1 chair)
</pre>
A chair is a type of horse drawn vehicle.
GRANDFATHER'S BEQUEST:
From the will of Edmund Logwood:
Item. I give and bequeath to my grandson Edmund Lockett one negro boy named James to him and his heirs forever propided [sic] his Father Richard Lockett lets him live under my Discretion and at my death under the care of my son Archibald Logwood.
SUMMARY of LAND TRANSACTIONS:
Edmund Lockett bought 161 acres in Chesterfield Co. in 1784 when he was 23 years old. He made no further purchases until 1791 when he began to buy small and medium size tracts adjacent to land he already owned. In the index to deed records there are numerous entries for Edmond Lockett for transactions subsequent to those I have listed belowfor transactions subsequent to those I have listed below.
LAND:
On August 4, 1784 Archibald August 4, 1784 Archibald Logwood of Chesterfield Co. sells to Edmond Lockett of the same place for £280 two tracts containing 161 acres, more or less, the first bounded by the glebe, Sublet, Trent, Winfree, Powall, Taylor and Friend, and the second by Powall and Winfree, being part of a tract Logwood purchased of Salle Welch. (Chesterfield Co. Deed Records 14/407)
On February 7, 1791 Jordan Lacy of Chesterfield Co. sells to Edmund Lockett of the same place for £58 10s a tract of 78 acres, more or less, in Chesterfield Co. on the waters of Tomahack [Creek] adjoining Himand Road, Lewis Sublett and John Farrar. (12/9)
On March 6, 1792 Thomas Friend of Chesterfield Co. sells to Edmund Lockett of the same place for £50 a tract of 50 acres, more or less, in Chesterfield Co. adjoining said Lockett and the Manchester glebe. (12/332)
On April 5, 1792 Lewis Sublett, Sen'r of Chesterfield Co. sells to Edmund Lockett of the same place for £35 a tract of 50 acres, more or less, in Chesterfield Co. adjoining said Lockett, John Farrar, the Hamond Road and Manchester Glebe. (12/241)
On January 9, 1793 Edmund Lockett of Chesterfield Co. sells to John Powell of the same place for £10 a tract of 10 acres, more or less, in Chesterfield Co. bounded by Reuben Winfree and John Powell and being a remnant of the tract that said Lockett purchased of Archibald Logwood and lying directly between said Powell's two plantations. (12/363)
On January 9, 1793 John Powell of Chesterfield Co. sells to Edmund Lockett of the same place for £20 a tract of 20 acres by estimation in Chesterfield Co. adjoining said Lockett, Reuben Winfree and Josiah Taylor. (12/375)
On March 16, 1796 Henry Trent, Sen'r of Chesterfield Co. sells to Edmond Lockett of the same place for £31 11s 5p a certain dividend of land in Chesterfield Co. containing 21 1/2 acres, more or less, and adjoining Lockett, Winfree, Watkins and John Farrar. (13/515)
On February 4, 1797 Benjamin Watkins, Jun'r of Chesterfield Co. sells to Edmond Lockett of the same place for £21 13s 7p a tract of 18 1/2 acres, more or less, in Chesterfield Co. adjoining Rebin Winfree, John Farar, and Edmond Lockett. (14/145)
WAR OF INDEPENDENCE:
The following is a summary of pension application W8064 for Sally Lockett, widow of Edmund Lockett.
In a deposition Edmund A. Lockett, nephew of Edmund Lockett, deceased, states that his uncle died June 24, 1834 and that he recorded that date in the family Bible of the deceased, that he often heard his uncle speak of his revolutionary services, that his uncle married Sally Bryant, now Sally Lockett, December 8, 1785, that that date is clearly fixed in his memory since he (the deponent) was born on the same day in 1790, that Sally Lockett is about 78 years old, and that she has not remarried since the death of her husband.
In another deposition Richard W. Flournoy states that he bought a lot of books at the sale of the estate of Edmund Lockett, deceased, that among them was a Bible containing a Family Record, and that the following entries are from that Bible:
Edmund Lockett and Salley Bryant was married December 8, 1785
Edmund Lockett, son of Richard Lockett and Mary his wife, was born June 3, 1761
Sarah Bryant, daughter of James and Jane Bryant, was born November 5, 1762
Edmund Lockett died June 24, 1834
Richard Flournoy further states that Edmund Lockett was a pensioner before his death and that "he was a highly respectable man, having been many years a Justice of the Peace, and also high sheriff and Commissioner in Chancery of the County of Chesterfield."
On October 7, 1840 Sally Lockett, a resident of Chesterfield County who will be 78 years of age next November 5, stated under oath in open court that she is the widow of Edmund Lockett, that they were married December 8, 1785, that he died June 24, 1834, and that he "was a private in the Army of the Revolution, and a pensioner under the Act of Congress of June 7th, 1832, at the rate of Twenty dollars per annum, that a warrant for the pension aforesaid was granted to her said husband in the year 1834, shortly before his death, on a declaration made in the County Court of Chesterfield, and amended before a Justice of the Peace of the said county, that the pension warrant aforesaid having been delivered, after her husband's death, to the pension agent in Richmond Virginia, she has now no documentary evidence to prove that he was a pensioner . . ."
The Clerk of the County Court of Powhatan states that "the marriage license bond given by the above named Edmond Lockett upon obtaining a license to intermarry with the above named Sally Bryant, and now filed in my office, is dated the third day of December 1785". They were married December 17, 1785 by George Smith, according to the minister's return.
On August 14, 1832 Edmund Lockett, Sen'r, a resident of Chesterfied County aged 71 years last June, described under oath in open court his military service. He gives a long, rambling, not very coherent account. He says that he entered the service sometime in October 1780, that he volunteered as a private in a company of militia commanded by Capt. Geo. Markham. He served about two months and was discharged. Early in January 1781 he was again called into service. He was discharged in Chesterfield Co. and then he was summoned again and joined the main army. He says that he was discharged for the last time in the last part of June 1781, as best he can recall. He says, "I resided in the county of Chesterfield at the time I entered the service I have resided there every since." He also says, "I the said Edmund Lockett do also declare (that from the register my father made of my birth on the back of my Indentures) I was born the 3rd day of June 1761 (which register I now have at home".
In another deposition Edmund Lockett says he was born in Chesterfield County and that his parents had lived there for many years previously and that he has always been a resident of that county.
On June 1, 1853 Sally Lockett says that she is 91 years old and that she has lived in Chesterfield Co. for 40 years and that previously she lived in Powhatan Co. She is still a widow. It appears that she drew a pension under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1843 and that she wants to draw a pension under subsequent Acts of Congress. Various documents relate to her effort to draw a pension and to collect arrears owed to her.
The deposition of Edmund Lockett Sen'r given August 14, 1832 follows:
State of Virginia, Chesterfield county to wit:
On this fourteenth day of August, anno Dom. 1832 personally appeared in open court before the county court of Chesterfield county, now sitting, Edmund Lockett sen'r. -- a resident of said county of Chesterfield and State of Virginia, aged Seventy one years last June, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on this oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832, entitled "An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution".
I entered the service sometime in October 1780, that I volunteered as a private in a company of malitia commanded by Capt. Geo. Markham, James Moody 1st Lieutenant, Wm. Hill 2nd Lieutenant and John Anderson Ensign. -- The Regiment commanded by Colo. James Monroe -- Mercer Lieutenan Colonel, and Robert Goodemasor of said Regiment, the Troops marched in various directions in the lower part of Virginia, was at Smithfield, Mackey's Mills, and after serving a tour of about two months, marched up to Petersburg and there was discharged. Sometime early in January 1781 about the time Arnold Visited, plundered & burnt Richmond, I was again caled out into the united states service under the command of David Patteson Capt. The Subbalterns not recollected Colo. Bernard Markham or Colo. Robert Goode commanding the detachment where we continued in service for a considerable time ___ & then were discharged in the county of chesterfield, but how long I was continued in service I cannot recollect, as soon as it was assertained that the British was moving up the river again were caled out again and went & Joined the Main Army while they Lay at Wilton, I remained there Several days. The company I was attatched, the officers names I do not recollect but a certain Majr. Holt commanded in the betallion to to which I was attached, Colo. Robert Goode then obtained a detatchmment, to go over to Chesterfield to reconiter there to which detatchment I was attached under the command of a certain Capt. Bogal, we were marched backward & forwards about Osbornes & in the neghbourhood of Petersburg untill after the battle of Petersburg we were then march'd about from place to place between Manchester & Petersburg untill we incampled at aplace caled audsberries at which place Tarltons core of horse surpresed the camp & took several of them prisoners those that escaped were ordered to Join the Main army which I accordingly did _____ days thereafter where they were incamped on allens creek in the county of Hanover where I continued with the main army through the Several Counties to wit (I believe ______) Warren, Culpeper & fauqure untill the army met Genral Wagner pursuing the enemy as they passed down the river, we crossed from Charles City. James River at westover & passed through Prince George & some of the lower counties in which we remained a considerable time at which time I got discharged after Joining the main army I was attached to the company of Capt. Night or Right from Amilia county. The subbalterns were Bartlet Elam & Isham Cheatham from Chesterfield, I received no written discharge for any _____ that I served, the last time I was discharged it was near the last of June 1781 as well as I at this distant time can recollect, I resided in the county of Chesterfield at the time I entered the service I have resided there ever since, I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or an anuety except the present & declare that my name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state, I the said Edmund Lockett do also declare (that from the register my father made of my birth on the back of my Indentures) I was born the 3rd day of June 1761 (which register I now have at home, Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Edm'd Lockett
SHERIFF:
Edmund Lockett was sheriff of Chesterfield Co. in 1823 and 1824. See
http://www.chesterfield.gov/content2.aspx?id=2576
PROBATE:
Chesterfield Co., Virginia Will books, v. 12-13, 1830-1837, Vol 13, pg 32, image 404/723 at familysearch.org:
Edmund Lockett of Chesterfield Co., Virginia wrote his will January 11, 1831.
First his debts are to be paid.
He bequeaths 400 acres described by metes and bounds to his nephew Edmund W. Lockett along with two Negroes, old Stanly and Reuben.
He says that the balance of his estate, real and personal, is to be lent to his wife during her natural life. Then he says that he gives to his wife during her natural life one moiety of the slaves, household and kitchen furniture, plantation utensils and stocks of every kind. He also gives her his four shares in the Manchester Turnpike road, his interest in the Swansborough Land, his seventh part of the coal that may be found in the two tracts of land that her father James Bryant, late of Powhatan Co, died siezed of. She may dispose of these assets as she sees fit. At her death the balance of the estate, excluding the land, is to be divided equally between his nephew Edmund A. Lockett (1/3), his nephew Edmund W. Lockett (1/3), and Mary A. Lockett and Rebecca Lockett, daughters of E. A. Lockett (1/3).
He also gives to Edmund A. Lockett, after the death of his wife, the tract of land on which he currently lives. It includes "the mansion where I live and the mill" and contains about 766 acres. A condition of this bequest is that E. A. Lockett will give to his son David the tract on which he (E. A. Lockett) now lives when David shall become of age. The balance of his land, after the death of his wife, is bequeathed to E. W. Lockett.
He appoints Edmund A. Lockett as his executor.
In a codicil ("P. S.") added February 9, 1832 the testator Edmund Lockett says that he wants his woman Hannah and her four children to be sold to Abraham S. Wooldridge (as he owns her husband) provided that he will consent to buy her at any thing like a fair price. Four hundred dollars of the proceeds are to be given to E. W. Lockett to purchase a Negro girl should he think proper to do so. The testator also specifies that in the distribution of the slaves families are to be kept together to as great a degree as possible.
Another codicil added June 23, 1833 deals mostly with the distribution of the slaves.
The will with the 2 mentioned oodicils and an additional codicil signed by D. Laprade and Judith M. Lockett was presented to the Chesterfied County Court July 14, 1834.
MORE:
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/LOCKETT/2011-04/1302923330
Edmond Lockett married Sally Bryant and he died in 1834 in Chesterfield Co. VA. They were childless and his will mentions leaving lands to his wife, Edmund W. Lockett, Edmund A.(Ashbrook) Lockett and two of his daughters Mary A. and Rebecca Lockett.
Edmund W. Lockett was a son of his brother Daniel Lockett who lived and died in Wythe Co. VA. Has anyone found where this Edmund sold these lands in Chesterfield Co. He was to get 1/3 of the land mentioned in the will.
To finish the story, Edmund A. Lockett was the only child of his brother David who remained in Chesterfield Co. and lived near Edmund and Sally. This nephew was appointed administrator of this will and later helped Sally get a widows pension. He got 1/3 of the land and the two daughters each got 1/6 of the lands after Sally died.
SLAVES:
See http://genealogytrails.com/vir/slaves.html relative to slaves.
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"Virginia, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1740-1850," Repository: http://www.ancestry.com.
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